Word: polled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Oddly enough, a Gallup poll reported last week that the great majority (74%) of those questioned approved of Macmillan's infusion of youth into the Cabinet. Yet an increasing number of Britons also felt that the 68-year-old Prime Minister should have added his own name to the list of ministers fired for "tiredness." The new Cabinet, cracked the Sunday Telegraph, "is, so to speak, the New Frontier-under Eisenhower." In just nine days, the number of those who professed dissatisfaction with Macmillan himself had risen from 39% to 52%. Only once before in Britain had a Gallup...
...cause to give the President a political issue. The Senators also recognized something else that Kennedy did not: medicare is not so overwhelmingly popular an issue as the President seems to believe. Letters ran heavily against medicare after Kennedy's appearance in Madison Square Garden, and a Gallup poll showed that its popular support had dropped from 55% last March to 48% in June...
...MacArthur holding up the tory standard and speaking first. He discussed, with intermixed humon and seriousness the plight of the Liberals in recent years and stated that the current Liberal revival was only an expression of dissatisfaction that is customary between British general elections, but that when the next poll-taking rolled around, the people would realize that they would be faced with the prospect of choosing a government and that most people who had left the Conservative sympathies would return. He ended his discussion with the statement that one can only wait and see "what will happen next...
North Carolina's William E. Cobb, 39, a slender, crew-cut lumber broker in Morganton, has been zealously building up his party since taking over the G.O.P. leadership in 1958. In 1960 Republican Robert L. Gavin managed to poll 46% of the vote for Governor. Cheered on by Cobb, nearly 1,000 delegates showed up at the annual state convention in March-nearly twice the expected number. Declared Cobb: "We are the nucleus of a political bombshell that can go off at any time...
...charge of each. Almost all amateurs, they made careful files on each delegate, deluged doubtful delegates with letters, campaign literature, weekly checkups and. when necessary, personal visits or phone calls from the candidate. Also in the Kennedy manner. Lodge saw that each delegate got the results of a poll showing that he had a better chance of winning the election than Curtis...